Sash-fastener



(No Model.)

F. A. BASOOM.

BASH FASTENBR. Patented Sept. 15, 71885.

jay! U ITED STATES "PATENT. OFFICE.

FRANK A. BASCOM, OF GREENVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

SASH-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,090, dated September 15, 1885. Application filed March 31, 1885. (No model.) i

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK A. BASOOM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Greenville, inthe county of Mercer and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sash Fasteners and Supports; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to devices for supporting and fastening window-sash in various positions in the frame. The particular type of sash supports and fasteners to which this device belongs is that in which the sash is held by the instrument pressing against one side of the casing and crowding the sash against the opposite side, and thus holding it by friction in any desired position.

My invention consists in improvements in the construction of this class or type of window supports or fasteners, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, as follows: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a window and sash having thereon one of my devices. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the window and easing with the support and fastener in vertical section. Fig. 3 is an elevation View of the support or fastener. Fig. 4 is a vertical section on the line a: w in Fig. 3. Figs. 5, 6, 7 are perspective views of the parts of the device separated from each other.

The device consists of three parts, viz., a case or housing, 0, having through its arched top a straight plain slot, 0,- an actuating-lever, D, having a cylindrical head, which fits like a journal in the housing G,'and has within its bore'a screw-thread, D, and a movable screwthreaded bolt, E, having a wide presser head, E.

In the face of the resser-plate E, I put an 5 opening, 6, and on the side at thecasing A, when it is desired to secure the window against being raised or loweredby force applied to it,

I put ascrew, a, in such a position that it may be made to enter the opening 6, as seen in 5c Fig. 2. This constitutes a complete lock to prevent the forcing open of the window; but

if the screw were so placed as to come just above the presser-plate it would serve the same purpose. Any-common wood-screw may be used by leaving its head extended slightly beyond the casing-face. y

I am aware that there are many-forms of window-fasteners which secure the window by the bolt pressing against the window-frame, and that in many of these a housing is used and a bolt-actuating lever is journaled in said housing. In some forms the lever-head is made with an inclined face, which abuts against an inclined face in the housing, and the slot through which the lever passes is diagonal; in others, a diagonal slot fort-he lever is alone relied upon; in others the lever-head is externally screw-threaded on. each side of the lever, one screw being a left-hand thread and the other a right-hand, My construction is much simpler than the last-named and much stronger than the former.

What I claim as new is I In a window-sash fasteuingor supporting device, the combination, substantially as set forth,of the housing C, the actuatinglever D, having an internally screwthreaded cylindrical head, D, journaled in said housing, and the externally screw-threaded bolt E,fittiug in said head D and having a presser-plate, E,

at its outer end.

In testimony whereof Iafiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

F. A. BASOOM.

Witnesses:

JNo. R. HALLOCK, W. R. EDELEN. 

